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Series
The Casketeers
📅 2018
⭐ 5.0
🕐 23 min
NZ
NZ
Francis and Kaiora Tipene are the passionate proprietors of Tipene Funerals. This is a unique opportunity to look behind the scenes of their business and into this little-explored but vital service, where our culture's last taboo is being addressed with dignity and aroha.
Seasons & Episodes
E1
Tears of the people, like rain from the heavens
2018-01-13
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E2
Although it is small, it is precious
2018-01-20
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E3
People pass away, but the land remains forever
2018-01-27
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E4
My young tōtara has been broken
2018-02-03
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E5
Farewell oh son, the morning tide is yours, the evening tide is mine
2018-02-10
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E6
Be it small, it is an act of generosity
2018-02-17
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E1
Return to your ancestral mountains to be cleansed by the winds of Tāwhirimātea
2019-01-14
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E2
My prized albatross plume is drenched by the mists of sorrow
2019-01-21
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E3
The tip of the moon has broken away
2019-01-28
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E4
My love for you will never wane
2019-02-04
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E5
A child's love for their father is beyond compare
2019-02-11
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E6
A great mountain can be ascended, but not a great man
2019-02-18
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E7
What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people
2019-02-25
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E8
As one frond dies, another frond rises to take its place
2019-03-04
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E1
Courage has many resting places
2020-01-05
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E2
Words can't express how much I love you
2020-01-12
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E3
Farewell to you, I shall return home
2020-01-19
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E4
A white heron of a single flight
2020-01-26
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E5
A person of great endurance
2020-02-02
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E6
Every star has its own luminance
2020-02-09
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E7
People are precious
2020-02-16
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E8
Man is not like the weathered branch of the tītoki, he lives on through his descendents
2020-02-23
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E1
The sun shines as I shed a tear
2021-03-15
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E2
Sleep the never ending sleep
2021-03-22
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E3
This is the day that tears are shed
2021-03-29
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E4
A constant love, a never ending love
2021-04-05
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E5
A human bond can never be severed
2021-04-19
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E6
Love surrounds us
2021-04-26
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E7
In life, in death, your family is everything
2021-05-03
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E8
Like the mighty Maire in the forest
2021-05-10
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E1
The sun shines as I shed a tear
2022-04-19
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E2
Connections between people cannot be severed whereas those of a canoe-rope can
2022-04-26
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E3
Gloom and sorrow prevail, day and night
2022-05-03
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E4
Let us nurture our sister and she will mourn for us
2022-05-10
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E5
Love received demands love returned
2022-05-17
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E6
The cycle is complete
2022-05-24
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E7
When the fern frond dies, another rises in its place
2022-05-31
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E8
When a shoal of maomao passes seaward of Nukutaurua, they will never return
2022-06-07
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E1
If a reed stands by itself it may break, but if in a group, it will be unbreakable
2023-10-09
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E2
You shall be mourned by those you leave behind
2023-10-16
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E3
A full cycle is completed
2023-10-23
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E4
Let us stay close together, not far apart
2023-10-30
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E5
When the fern frond dies, another grows to take its place
2023-11-06
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E6
Let us mourn their passing, for it is permanent. Not like that of the moon, set to rise again
2023-11-13
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E7
Connections between people cannot be severed, whereas those of a canoe-rope can
2023-11-20
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E8
Hold fast to your beliefs, look toward the horizons of the sea
2023-11-27
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